I have reduced my intake of dairy products because there’s heart disease in my family, and I’m concerned about the effect this may have on my bones. What alternative sources of calcium can you suggest?

Calcium-rich non-dairy foods include tinned fish with bones, oysters, nuts and seeds. You should eat them with your evening meal: other foods will help the process of calcium absorption. Vitamin D, obtained from an action of sunlight on the skin, also helps calcium absorption, while too much dietary fibre, spinach or broccoli interferes with it. Calcium is needed consistently on a daily basis, so make sure that whatever you do to keep up your supplies takes account of this.

Of course you could confine your eating of dairy foods to non-fat forms, and still get plenty of calcium from them without increasing the risk of heart disease.

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